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So what is the world’s most dangerous animal?

Good, a media news publishing site, released a video recently with a question for us: What is the world’s most dangerous, deadliest creature?

Go ahead, think about it.

The world’s most poisonous is the box jellyfish, but its kill rate is pedestrian at less than 6,000 since 1955.

This cute little guy is considered the most poisonous animal on earth – but he isn’t the most deadly.

But what about the deadliest?

It’s man, right? Good guess, but even with an annual tally of 475,000, man isn’t No. 1 either.

Some animals considered super dangerous are not even close.

Sharks kill about 10 people a year. Crocodiles tally 1,000. Tapeworms, dogs, snakes and parasitic roundworms kill tens of thousands. Even the freshwater snail leads to more than 110,000 human deaths annually by passing on Schistosomiasis, a disease that bedevils Africa.

So have you come up with the world’s deadliest creature?

Guess what? It’s right now hanging out in your backyard.

Yep, it’s the mosquito, which recently has fostered the Zika epidemic after – of course – fostering the Michael Jackson Thriller of diseases, malaria.

It kills 725,000 people every year by sucking our blood and giving us malaria and other diseases it carries, according to Good’s video.

Meet the world’s most deadliest creature: the mosquito.

Good’s video listing the world’s most dangerous animals – including man – ending with our friend the mosquito can be viewed by clicking here .

You can also check out their other videos on their Facebook page here.